http://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_feeds/recent_feed.atomShortgrass Library System - Recently Added2018-01-12T16:11:00Zhttps://www.cantookstation.com/favicon/cdoc.icoDe Marquehttp://demarque.cominfo@demarque.comhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ee9.atomLaugh Out Loud DogsLOL Dogs
Q: Why did the dog cross the road twice?
A: He was trying to fetch a boomerang.
Q: What do you call a really cold dog?
A: A pupsicle!
Q: What kind of pet does Dracula have?
A: A bloodhound!
The Basenji does not bark. It makes a yodeling sound, called a “baroo.”
The Norwegian Lundehund’s head can bend back and touch its spine
Dalmation puppies have white fur when they are born. Their black spots come later.
Dogs sweat through the pads on their paws.Wendy Pirk2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eec.atomLaugh Out Loud CatsIn Ancient Egypt was against the law to hurt or kill a cat, even by accident. The punishment was death.
Sphynx cats do not have any fur. They don’t even have whiskers!
Most pure white cats that have blue eyes are deaf.
A cat’s nose print is unique, just like our fingerprints.
Q: What do you call a cat that has eaten a whole duck?
A: A duck-filled fatty puss!
Q: What is a cat’s favourite subject in school?
A: Mew-sic.
Q: What do you call a cat that doesn’t sink in the water?
A: A bobcat!Wendy Pirk2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:10Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eef.atomLaugh Out Loud Farm AnimalsQ: What type of horse goes out only at night?
A: A night-mare!
Q: What did the llama say when he was asked to take out the garbage?
A: No prob-llama!
Q: What do you call an ostrich at the North Pole?
A: Lost.
Some farmers use donkeys instead of dogs to protect their sheep, goats and cows.
A herd of alpacas chooses a spot in their yard for a “poop pile,” where every animal goes to the bathroom.
Pigs are great swimmers!
Horses have the biggest eye of all mammals that live on land.
A cow doesn’t really have 4 stomachs; it has 1 stomach with 4 chambers.Wendy Pirk2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:10Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ed7.atomThe Road to ArmageddonIn 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the Paraguayan economy and population devastated. The suffering defied imagination and left a tradition of bad feelings, changing politics in South America forever.
This is the definitive work on the Triple Alliance War. Thomas L. Whigham examines key personalities and military engagements while exploring the effects of the conflict on individuals, Paraguayan society, and the continent as a whole. The Road to Armageddon is the first book utilize a broad range of primary sources and materials, including testimony from the men and women who witnessed the war first-hand.Thomas L. Whigham2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ecb.atomInhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienneThis book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They reveal the unities and fractures in national understanding, telling stories of otherness and marginality and of dislocation and un-belonging.
Ce livre examine l’importance culturelle de l’espace et de la mémoire en contexte canadien et plus spécifiquement dans les littératures du pays, afin d’inviter des lectures neuves des questions régionales, nationales et globales. Il rassemble sept chapitres en anglais et cinq en français, en plus d’une introduction bilingue. Les contributions, favorisant des approches thématiques et théoriques variées, sont réunies par leur désir de mettre en lumière des croisements inédits entre la mémoire et l’espace en tant qu’ils définissent certains des problèmes les plus brûlants de notre époque au Canada. S’y révèle l’équilibre fort instable entre récits unitaires et fractures communautaires, entre altérité et marginalité, ou entre dislocation et désappartenance.
Contributors / Collaborateurs: Albert Braz, Samantha Cook, Jennifer Delisle, Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Smaro Kamboureli, Janne Korkka, André Lamontagne, Margaret Mackey, Sherry Simon, Pamela Sing, Camille van der Marel, Erin Wunker2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ecf.atomUnder SiegeDuring the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming minority governments in 1924 and again in 1929, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one side stood those who wanted the ILP to subordinate itself to an increasingly cautious and conventional Labour leadership; on the other stood those who felt that the ILP should throw its lot in with the Communist Party of Great Britain. After the ILP disaffiliated from Labour in 1932 in order to pursue a new, “revolutionary” policy, it was again torn, this time between those who wanted to merge with the Communists and those who saw the ILP as their more genuinely revolutionary and democratic rival. At the opening of the 1930s, the ILP boasted five times the membership of the Communist Party, as well as a sizeable contingent of MPs. By the end of the decade, having tested the possibility of creating a revolutionary party in Britain almost to the point of its own destruction, the ILP was much diminished—although, unlike the Communists, it still retained a foothold in Parliament.
Despite this reversal of fortunes, during the 1930s—years that witnessed the ascendancy of both Stalin and Hitler—the ILP demonstrated an unswerving commitment to democratic socialist thinking. Drawing extensively on the ILP’s Labour Leader and other contemporary left-wing newspapers, as well as on ILP publications and internal party documents, Bullock examines the debates and ideological battles of the ILP during the tumultuous interwar period. He argues that the ILP made a lasting contribution to British politics in general, and to the modern Labour Party in particular, by preserving the values of democratic socialism during the interwar period.Ian Bullock2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ed3.atomFail SafeSense and sensuality. Body and embodiment. Fail Safe links human senses to the fecund world, examining plant and human bodies on the inside and the outside. Linguistically flourishing, sonically dense, this language is tactile. Dynamic and lush, these poems are inviting in their linguistic play.
Using an impressive range of styles and poetic approaches, Nikki Sheppy presents strong, energetic, intelligent work. Each poem stands alone, yet speaks to the poems around it. Each poem is felt and tasted with acute attention to language and the body. Fail Safe is a masterful debut and Nikki Sheppy a writer to watch.Nikki Sheppy2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ebc.atomEducation PolicyWhat exactly is education policy, why is it important, and how is it implemented in the real world? Jerome Delaney, a professor of educational administration and former high school principal, answers the big questions about education policy in this powerful and practical primer for students. Informed by his experience in the public school system, Delaney takes a pragmatic and realistic approach that divides a complicated subject into manageable sub-topics. He grounds the debate at the classroom level: after all, that’s where the effects of high-level policy decisions ultimately play out.
Starting from the basics and progressing through to the deeper aspects of education policy, this text provides an excellent introduction to a subject that lies at the foundation of every education system. This second edition includes a new chapter on issues relating to policy implementation, as well as new discussion questions at the end of each chapter.
Topics include:
A beginner’s overview of education policy studies.
How values influence policy-making.
How education policy is developed, implemented, and evaluated.
The role of policy in education reform.
The future of education policy as schools adapt to changing societies.Jerome G. Delaney2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eb9.atomThe Larger ConversationThis volume, the final in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to be where he found himself, Lilburn embarked on a personal attempt at decolonization, seeking to uncover what is wrong within Canadian culture and to locate a possible path to recovery. He proposes a new epistemology leading to an ecologically responsible and spiritually acute relationship between settler Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and the land we inhabit. The Larger Conversation is a bold statement: a vital text for readers of environmental philosophy and for anyone interested in building toward conversation between Indigenous peoples and settlers.Tim Lilburn2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eb5.atomShadow Hymns: Photography by Austin AndrewsShadow Hymns is an exploration of photojournalism and foreign correspondence by filmmaker Austin Andrews. Photo spreads in the book include Desert Sundials: Angles on the sand seas of Namibia; Pyramiden: Midnight latitudes of Svalbard, and Frontier Empire of Ascension Island.Austin Andrews2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ef6.atomEyepieceIn Eyepiece, brilliant cinematographer and filmmaker Vic Sarin lays out the landscape of his life. The book starts with his formative years in India and carries on with stories about early days at CBC, working with top Canadian performers and personalities, and his recent feature films and documentaries. To Vic, the entertainment business is a window to magic. Touching people with his art and celebrating the human side comes through in every chapter, just as is comes through in every one of his films.Vic Sarin2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:10Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ec7.atomMy True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe VoyageurIn this coming-of-age story, Benjie Gabai is convinced he’s been the victim of a terrible cosmic hoax. Instead of being born in the 18th century as a French-Canadian voyageur, God has plunked him down in present-day Montreal, into a family that views his fur trade obsession as proof that their Benjie, once so bursting with promise, has well and truly lost it. Benjie serves out his days as caretaker of The Bay’s poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting and polishing the artifacts that fuel his imagination. When he learns his museum is about to be closed down, scattering his precious collection to the four winds, he hatches a plan that risks bringing his voyageur illusions lapping dangerously up against reality.
My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur melds Canadian frontier history with the madcap adventures of a young man who is not ready to meet adulthood head on.Phyllis Rudin2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eda.atomJesus on the DashboardLisa Murphy-Lamb2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4edd.atomFew and FarAllison Kydd2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ef3.atomSearching for Mary SchäfferMary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and wilderness, travel and science—to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and private archival collections in the United States and Canada set the stage for this engrossing exploration of Schäffer’s creative, collaborative, and competitive enterprise amid the cultural complexities of Philadelphia’s science and photography communities, and the scientific, tourist, and Indigenous societies of the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
“In this impressive book, Colleen Skidmore uses her considerable skills as a social historian of photography to shed new light on the remarkable life of Mary Schäffer. She knows the stories, the characters, and presents a social history that is fresh and convincing. Skidmore’s conclusion is brilliant and will certainly serve as a catalyst for further research and study of Mary Schäffer.” Donna Livingstone, President and CEO, Glenbow MuseumColleen Skidmore2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:10Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4eac.atomThe Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other StoriesSecrets aren’t good for families. — from “Big Luck Island”
In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories—a collection of new, delightful, distinctive short stories—everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by secrets and absences. From “The Remedy,” a tale of revenge and justice, to “The Smart Sisters,” a story of tricky family dynamics, Coulter’s narratives portray relationships, loss, and what we learn in the aftermath of death. Ghosts, echoes, memories, regrets...Coulter’s characters are haunted in many ways. With style and sweep that hints at Lynn Coady and Alice Munro, Myrl Coulter is a strong, fresh voice in contemporary Canadian fiction.Myrl Coulter2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ea0.atomK9 Aggression ControlAggression control training requires dogs to think while they are excited and under stress, which is no easy task. Dr. Stephen A. Mackenzie has been teaching and using non-compulsive methods for aggression-control training for more than 30 years. His techniques have worked for hundreds of dogs, and have been used and adapted by many skilled trainers and decoys for their individual circumstances.
K9 Aggression Control provides a flexible approach to aggression control that is rooted in obedience training. You may be someone who uses a muzzle, sees a role for toys and games, and works with a decoy who likes to drop the sleeve, or you might not want a muzzle, toy, or dropped sleeve anywhere near your dog—either way this book has options for you. It details techniques and variations so you can choose the options you prefer. Dr. Mackenzie also gives decoys sound advice on controlling a dog’s excitement level, working with handlers, and making the best use of equipment.
A new chapter in this revised and updated edition shows you how to train dogs to indicate a person’s location without biting—essential for the search and rescue trainer and a real plus for modern police forces looking for ways to reduce liability.Stephen A. Mackenzie2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ea9.atomRumbleSat Art from the Edge of SpaceRumbleSat: Art from the Edge of Space celebrates the two RumbleSat Art in Space missions; the Canadian Space Agency AUSTRAL 2017 campaign, and the JP Aerospace AWAY 123 launch. Featured in the book is the work of over a hundred artists who created original art for the voyages to space, along with a selection of poetry, stories, and comics by the artists and curators.Jim ParkerLorene ShybaRich Theroux2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-15T13:41:06Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4efa.atomMatanzasHis psyche still reeling from having to kill a criminal in the line of duty, Calgary’s Detective Lane flies to Cuba to celebrate the wedding of his beloved niece. While there, though, he finds himself drafted by the local police into investigating the murder of a Canadian tourist.
Upon his return to Calgary, links between this incident and the deaths of local elderly pensioners start to make themselves known, drawing Lane and his partner Nigel Li further into a web of conspiracy, politics and big money.
Garry Ryan’s award-winning, best-selling mystery series continues with all the intrigue, good humour and mochaccinos that fans have come to expect.Garry Ryan2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:10Zhttp://shortgrass.cantookstation.com/resource_entries/5a58de1476e57929b6ec4ebf.atomRanching Women in Southern AlbertaOnce dominated by large cattle operations covering thousands of acres, Alberta in the 1880s-1930s saw a shift as small, family-owned ranches began to dot the province's southern plains. While this era of agriculture might conjure images of cowboys riding through the foothills or ranch hands tilling the prairie fields, women, too, played an integral part in this rapidly changing industry. Ranching Women in Southern Alberta explores the world of these women, and their efforts to ensure the economic viability of their family ranches and the social harmony of their families and communities. Rachel Herbert examines what life was like for ranching women, who faced a myriad of challenges while at the same time enjoying more personal freedom than their urban and European contemporaries. This book pays homage to the brave and talented women who rode the range, carving out a role for themselves during the dawn of the family ranching era.Rachel Herbert2018-01-12T16:11:00Z2018-03-14T18:15:09Z